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Martin Elechi Dumps PDP For APC, Says He Likes Buhari’s Move

The
immediate past governor of Ebonyi State, Chief Martin Elechi has on Sunday decamped
to the All Progressive Congress from the Peoples Democratic Party.

Elechi, a
two time governor of Ebonyi state, registered for the APC at his country home
in Echialike, Ikwo Local Government Area, in front of national party leaders.

The party
leaders were in Abakaliki, the Ebonyi capital, for a thanksgiving church
service for the recovery of President Muhammadu Buhari from his ill-health,
after which they moved to Ikwo.

According to
Elechi, he decided to join APC due to his love for Buhari and the current state
of the PDP occasioned by its protracted crisis. “I knew Buhari 49 years ago
when I started the movement for the creation of Ebonyi as he intervened during
my arrest with nine other comrades, by officers of the defunct Nigerian
Security Organisation.

“I was
interrogated while standing for nine hours and he as the Brigade Major in
Abakaliki at that time, ordered our immediate release.

“I thank God
for his health as he had favoured the people of Abakaliki and will triumph in
his onerous task of rescuing the country from misrule.

“He is the
person Nigerians are waiting for as the Boko Haram and corruption issues could
have been indescribable if God had not brought him to power,” he said.

The former
governor said that he was proud of the PDP due to the democratic ideals of its
founding fathers, but its present leaders have truncated the ideal.

He described
the APC as the alternative for Ebonyi people and the Igbo race and thanked the
party for offering him and his supporters, a political platform to identify
with.

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